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This week's Great Bend Chamber of Commerce Coffee will be hosted by Golden Belt Community Foundation at Prince of Peace Parish Center, 4100 Broadway Avenue, at 9:30 a.m. Thursday. Host will be Megan Hammeke with greeters Shelly Peacock and Cole Reif. Coffee, refreshments and door prizes will be available.

Great Bend USD 428 Superintendent Khris Thexton showed photos of cracks in the high school track and other areas of concern at Monday's school board meeting. Plans are already being made for projects at the track, Panther Activity Center and Great Bend Middle School gym.

Butterflies were in abundance at the Kansas Wetlands Education Center nature trail Saturday, enough to hold the interest of hundreds of young butterfly hunters and their parents, there for the 5th Annual KWEC Butterfly Festival.

A Veterans Service Representative from the Kansas Commission on Veterans' Affairs will be at the Great Bend Kansas Works Center at 1025 Main Street from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 14, to assist veterans and their families in applying for VA benefits. His regular schedule is the second Thursday of each month.

A group of USD 428 current and retired teachers attended the legislative coffee Saturday hosted by the Great Bend Chamber of Commerce. One educator questioned the thinking behind the newly proposed HB 2142. The bill, essentially, would place all teachers and staff of K-12 public education into one large pool for health insurance.

The Community Service Organization (CSO) at Barton Community College raised more than $600 worth of gifts and gift cards for Barton students for Christmas through member donations. Pictured are just a few of the members who participated in the event.

Unlike painting and drawing, which are quickly associated with art, quilting is associated with warmth and comfort. The Shafer Gallery at Barton Community College will show the community that it is also an incredible art form with the amazing quilts featured in its upcoming exhibit.

"I've done enough county fairs to realize you are lucky to find just one animal like these, but to have this many in a county fair is tremendous," said 2016 Barton County Fair 4-H Sheep judge, John Herbel, of Lucas. "My thanks to the competitors because it makes it a lot more enjoyable to judge a competition like this."

On Tuesday, July 5, members of the Galatia City Council met to finish sorting out how the Northern Barton County city will move forward with water sales to farmers and industry after one farmer was denied a request to purchase water for spraying his crops in May.

HUTCHINSON – After trading controversial television commercials, polite conversation and friendly exchanges highlighted the debate between Great Bend's Dr. Roger Marshall and Congressman Tim Huelskamp, Hutchinson for a near capacity crowd.

The Barton County Commission will meet at 9 a.m. Monday at the Barton County Courthouse, 1400 Main in Great Bend. The agenda includes the purchase of electronic voting books, a Mental Health Awareness Month proclamation and an upgrade of office lighting for the Register of Deeds Office.

Hoisington City Council members considered options of what to do with the restroom structure at Pride Park two weeks ago. They either needed to be razed or refurbished, after a proposed Eagle Scout project fell through. The council asked City Manager Jonathan Mitchell to approach the Commission on Aging, the group that operates the Friendship House located at the park, about a solution. Monday night, Mitchell reported back to the council.

About 35 Great Bend High School students stood across the street from the front entrance of their school around 1 p.m. Wednesday afternoon. They were continuing a protest that began on Monday afternoon following a press conference held by the Unified School District 428 administration at the district office.